The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

The Seizure of the Georgia, The most erroneous statements have been circulated with regard to the seizure of the Georgia by the N iagara. The errors have been promulgated by Federal agents and sympathisers, evidently for the prurpose of allaying the excitement which the out rage has occasioned, and, if possible, to prejudice in the public mind the position of her owner, Mr, Edward Bates. The perfect good faith and candour with which Mr. Bates has acted in reference to the Georgia is the best answer to these misstatements. Mee more fully the facts become known the more unwarrantable will appear the seizure of the vessel; and it is, no doubt, the knowledge of this circums stance that has prompted the circulation of the errors in question. It has been asserted in some quarters that the seizure was made with the cognisance and sanction of the British Government. This is simply untrue. The commander of the Niagara has acted solely on his own responsibility, and in accordance with the orders of his Government. It has also been alleged. that Mr.l3ates was not a bonafide purchaser, and that the vessel was still intended for the Cone federate services. These statements, cum multis alas, are likewise mere fiction. But it is needless to go through all the specious misrepresentations. They will be best refuted by a simple ungarnished explanation of the facts. Mr. Bates has nothing to conceal as to his connection with the Georgia, because all his dealings with her have been characterised by the same rectitude and frankness evhich have raised him to the first rank amongst Liverpool shipowners. He is well known to have scrupulously avoided any partisanship in the American war, and has never had the slightest interest in the blockade business. To suggest that he intended to use the Georgia for the benefit of Confederates is contrary both to fact and experience. When seized she was on a peaceful mission, fitted out as an ordinary merchantman. She bore the English flag and was registered at an English cuss tom - house, and was therefore entitled to all the privilege s of a neutral trader. The history of the Georgia since she came into the Mersey may be told with the utmost candour, and is briefly this :—As she had ceased to be useful as a men-ofswar, she was offered for sale by the Confederate Government, who had previously diss mantled her and removed all warlike weapons and stores. Having entered into negotiations for her purchase, Mr Bates communicated with the custom ,house authorities as to the manner in which they es Tould regard the vessel. Mr, Price Edwards, the cc Hector, acting on instructions received from Lon do 0, informed Mr Bates that he would be able to obtain a register for the ship when he applied for it. Upon this assurance—and Mr Bates would have had nothing to do with the vessel unless ho was as sured that she was registered es a British ship— the purchase was completed on the 2d of June last ; the necessary formalities were gone through to the satisfaction of the collectcr of customs, and the Georgia was accordingly registered on the 30th of June as a British ship, in the name of Mr Bates. The new owner had therefore taken all proper precautions to see that his title was indisputable, and careful scrutiny left no ground to suppose that the slightest difficulty would occur. Negotiations were entered into between Mr Bates and the re presentatives in England of the Portuguese Goa vernment, who were desirous of engaging a steamer to proceed to Lisbon, and thence to the Portuguese settlements on the West Coast of Africa. These negotiations resulted in the engagement of the Georgia upon terms which aro explained in the charter-party, dated the 28Lh July, and may thus summarise its chief clauses : " The agreement is between Edward Bates, owner of the good screw steamship called the Georgia, of 618 tons gross register, and 200 horse-power ; and Mr F. J. Van Zeller, on behalf of the Portuguese Government. It provides that the said vessel or steamer, being• tight, stanch, and strong, and in every way fitted fa. the voyage or service, with the full complement of officers, seamen, engineers, and firemen, adapted to a merchant steamer of her class and tonnage, shall be placed under the direction of the said charterer or merchant, or his assigns, to be by him or them employed for the conveyance of lawful merchandise, except sugar, molasses, or any article injurious to an iron ship—of course 20 tons each of sugar and molasses or any quantity of copper the ship can carry is not objected to—as follows : —From Liverpool to Lisbon, awl from thence to Cape de Verde, principe S. Thome, Vanguella, Loando, Nassamda, Ambriz, and return to Lisboa, calling at thg above ports on the return to Lisbon. There are the usual stipulations as to hire and management, and the agreement proceeds . The vessel to be consigned to the Companhia Luzitania at Lisbon, and to their agents at all the ports of call, free of commission or charges of whatsover kind, owners taking down bulkheads in atter. cabin, except last ; making saloon an open one; berths 'tween decks aft to be taken down by owners, and the charterers allowed the use of material form ing same to put up berths for 20 second-class passengers; after-cabins to be properly painted a light colour; vessel to be ready for delivery to charterers ou or before the Ist of August next, or sooner if ready; the coal bunkers in the hold available for cargo if required.' The charter-party also sets forth that it is distinctly understood and agreed between the parties that the owner does not provide any servants, stewards, or any other party to wait upon the passengers, or any one connected with the charterers,' and that the' owner provides provisions and water for his own crew ; passengers, or their servants or followers are to be found in everything eatable or drinkable, or in any other way (save as specified to the contrary) by the chartereis.'" This document on the face of it indicates an ordi nary mercantile transaction, and is the strongest refutation of the allegation that Mr Bates was en gaged in any doubtful enterprise, in which the Pore guese Government was made a decoy deck. In ful filment of the charter party the vessel was got ready for sea, and took on board 434 tons of coal belonging to the Portuguese Government. This was the only cargo embarked, and Mr Bates had nothing of his own on board except the usual ship stores and provisions for the crew. The Georgia's name was never changed, as there was not the least desire to conceal her original character, and she was regis tered as the British ship Georgia. She was placed under the command of Captain Widdycombe, and her crew were shipped for a commercial voyage in the usual course of business. It is said that Captain Widdyccnabe is an old blockade runner. This is a gross misrepresentation. For the last 16 years he has been in the uninterrupted employment of Mr Bates, and exclusively engaged in trading between the Mersey and India and China. The Georgia was ready to sail on the sth, and the circumstances attending her detention are gene rally known. Bat the official correspondence be tween Mr Bates and the Portuguese authorities throws considerable tight on the manner in which the former regarded the threatening attitude of the Niagara on her visit to the Mersey. 6o convinced was he that the Federal frigate would not dare to seize a British merchantman that he characterised the report as "old women's talk," and professed his readiness to send the ship to sea notwithstanding the threats of the Federal cruiser. I❑ accordance with this determination Mr Batee—who had full con& dence in the power end will of Great Britain tjsuP. sort her authority over her own mercantile marine —did actually despatch the vessel as soon es he had the orders of the Portuguese consul-general to that Effect. The following communications speak for themselves, and may be relied upon as genuine, as we copy from the originals, which have been placed a GUZ service without reserve : Mr E, Bates, Liverpool. Liverpool, Aug. 5, 1864, Sir,—l have received instructions from my Minister in London to detain the Georgia (s.s.) until further orders.— I am, sir, yours respectfully, ALVARO CA.RNEIRO GERALDES, Acting Consul for Portugal. (fulei;ra ta. ) lrum V4U. Zoller, Consul-General, Loudon, to Edward tutee, Rumford-place, Liverpool. haNt.! ill3t h 6. g'64. ca ptute Geor g heard fron t T iverpool. Niagara w a i t i ng to pia o utside En g li s h wa t ers. I f you are afraid I will cancel charter, you returning charter money, and pay f o r coale, Otherwise, Fend her to sea at once. (Telegram.) - (L- Au7.r. 6, 1864. al Edward Rate, Liverpool, to v : ,_ Per:ugal, LotamiZon.Aler' Consul lam not afraid. Only old vrem , ,:a' s t a lk . Send orders from yfmr Minister, and chip elntll g o to mea. _ ---- , Telegram hem Van Z o ller, London, to Edward Batea, Liverpool. Aug. 6 , 1861. Send the Georgia to ~e a at once. (Telegram.) Aug, 6, 1864. Edward Ihtes, Livcrpco, to Van ;Mier, Consul Gellert.' Portugal, London. Your telegram to hand. Mud; have orders frog: Portu guese Minister through Liverpool Consulate, as the order for detention, came through same channel. Get this done immediately, or Georgia will not sail. Portuguese Consulate, 42, South Jo ir.-street, Liverpool, Aug. 8,1864, E. Bates, Esq., Liverpool. Sir,—l have just received an official Triter from 'my Minister in London. who orders me to tell you to send the Georgia as soon as you have orders from the Consul-Gene ral in London to do so.—l have the honour to be, sir, yours very respectfully, ALVARO CARNEIRO GERALDES, Acting Consul for Portugal. (Telegram.) Portugal, Aug. 8, 1864. Edward Bates, Liverpool, to Consul-General, London. I have just received orders to let Georgia sail on re ceiving your orders. Please send them at once. (Telegram.) Rumford.place, Aug. 8, 1864. Van Zeller, London, to Edward Bates, Liverpool. Send steamer to sea at once. Portuguese Consulate, 42, South John-street. Liverpool, Aug. 8, MI. E. Bates, Esq., Liverpool. Sir,--As I have to inform my Minister of the precise time of the departure of the steamer Georgia, I request you to inform me by writing of same as soon as she sails,—l remain, sir, yours respectfully, ,ALVARO CARNEIIW GERALDES, Acting Consul for Portugal. The subsequent history of the Georgia is soon I told. She sailed from Liverpool on the Bth inst., and proceeded on her voyage under the British flag, but off Lisbon, on the 15th inst., she was seized by the Niagara, which was cruising about for the pur pose of intercepting her. The Georgia is now on her passage to Massachusetts in charge of a prize crew. It is a novel thing for a British ship, with a bona fide British register on board, and admittedly en. gaged in legitimate commerce, to be forcibly taken and sent into a prize court upon the pretext that at some former perisd, and while under different ownership, she was engaged in hostilities against the Federal States. Neither Mr Bates nor the Por tuguese Government can submit to this audacious appropriation of their property. It rests with the British Government to set Mr Bates right ; his pro perty has been seized in violation of all lawful authority, and as his injury will be immediately laid before the Foreign-office, the Government must take prompt measures not only to recover the ship herself, bat also to obtain suitable compensation for the injury. —Liverpool Daily Courier. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. WEST LONDON. The half yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Tokenhou3e-yard—Mr S. Bird in the chair. The directors reported that they had not yet con. chided the proposed arrangements with the West London Extension Company with a view to the ex tinction of this company, but that they would use their best endeavours to accomplish that object, and they recommended the reappointment of the com mittee of shareholders named on Sept. 2, 1862, to co-operate with them. Tie statement of accounts showed a balance in favour of the company of £674. The report and statement of accounts were adopted. Some shareholders expressed their dissatisfaction ,hat the negotiations with the West London Ex- tension Company were so long pending, and the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. On Wednesday this company opened with much ceremony a new line 13 miles in length, connecting their Manchester and Liverpool line at Eccles with the North Union line at "Wigan. Leaving Eccles in a north westerly direction the line passes through \%rorsley (the seat of the Kiri of Ellesmere), Ellen brook, Tyidesley, and Chowbent. As a passenger line it will to some extent be a competing live with the Lancashire and Yorkshire to Wigan and the north, but its chief value is as a mineral line. It opens up not only some old coalfields, but the whole tract through which it passes is one continuous coal field, a good deal of the ground being under laid with beds of coal. Among the coalfields in working are those of the Earl of Ellesmere, at Worsley ; of the Astley and Tyldesley Coal and Salt Works Company ; of Green and IL - Wands; of Messrs. Fletcher of the Moss; Hall and Co. ; and of the Hindley Green Company. The line also passes many large cotton and silk mills that will furnish traffic. The villages of Worsley, Tyldesley, Ellen brook, and Chowbent will also supply passenger traffic. A dinner was given at Tyldesley to cele brate the event. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Grosvenor Hotel, Pimlico; Lord Sondes, the chairman, presided. Mr W. E. Johnson, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it must be gratifying to all the share• holders that the traffic had increased so much, and was still increasing. The working expenses had been very great, but their attention had been given to the subject, and he had no doubt reductions in the expenses would be effected. The opening to Blackfriars•bridge had been a great advantage to their undertaking. The Parliamentary proceedings had been very 'mportant during the past Session, and several Bills afficting their interests had re ceived the Royal assent. They had had two meetings recently to take into account the affairs of the com pany; and, as mattars had been fully discussed at those meetings, but little remained, so that it was unnecessary for him to detain them; but if any gentleman wished to ask questions they would be answered. He considered the reports of their engi. neers very satisfactory, as regarded the works at Dover, and he hoped they would soon be completed, as it was of the greatest consequence to them for their continental traffic. Lord HARRIS, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. HAMILTON remarked that oat of £125,270 traffic received on the main line during the past half-past year about £60,000 had been received from the South Eastern Company, leaving £65,270 as the receipt on the Chatham line proper. He therefore estimated that the working expenses had exceeded the actual traffic by £35,000. The £30,369 net revenue for the half-year had been absorbed by the rent-charges and ether matters. Mr. IiEDGCOCK said he held in his hand a cir. cular from a stockbroker, stating that Lloyd's bonds of £l,OOO could be purchased for £750, including all charges, and would yield to the purchaser 18 per cent. He wanted to know upon what terms the Lloyd's bonds had been issued. Mr HOLROYD thought it ridiculous to ask such questions, It would not do at all times to state the interest they had to pay for money. At a former meeting it had been explained that Lloyd's bonds were given as an acknowledgment of a debt, and the amount of those that had been issued was in• eluded under the head of liabilities on the accounts. One man might transfer a debt to another—but if the Lloyd's bonds adverted to were made trans ferable to any one, all he could say that their com pany had never issued bonds of that description, as it would be illegal. In reply to Mr Hartridge he stated that the Lloyd's bonds issued by the corn. puny were included in two items—one liabilities for the general undertaking amounting to .1.:638,291 and the other for the metropolitan extensions, amounting to £471,888, These items included the liabilities of every description up to that date. Lord HARRIS hoped and trusted that the state • ments of accounts were correct, and that the usual information would be found in them. They could not expect to have the traffic fully developed upon the lines before they were constructed and com pleted. No doubt the accounts would I.e much more satisfactory in ennt her year when the lines were completed and open for traffic. Mr RAE:FRIDGE thought that every kind of in. formation should be given to the proprietors. He had read an account of the proceedings of the last meeting, and he saw that the amount of Lloyd's bonds issued was £1,200,000, but he would 'not have known that if some body at the meeting had not asked the qretion. The £30,000 net traffic on the main line would ju4t cover the rent cht,rges on the western THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1864. extension and the Victoria station, and after paying the Mid-Kent rent, would leave £3OO or £4OO, and not a shilling for the debentures. There was also a debt for interest in respect of the Dover extension of £67,000, which would have to be paid in some day. He believed that Mr Forbes had stated that a traffic of £B,OOO a week would pay all the pre* ference charges on the main line, but that must be the average for the whole year, since then £2,000,000 had been added to the capital. He esti mated that £12,500 a week would be required to pay 5 per cent. all round, which he hoped they would have some day, They had now power to raise altogether £16,500,000, and it would require a traffic of £31,750 a week to satisfy every one. Mr ADAMS estimated the present capital at £16,900,000. Mr HARRISON estimated that the loss on working the steamers must be something like £30,000 a year, allowing for depreciation and everything. Mr SURGEY thought it perfectly useless to talk over their affairs in that manner, while several lines were in course of construction, the traffic greatly increasing, and before their present system was completed. We should at least allow some time for the development of the traffic after the completion of the undertaking. Mr FORBES, the general manager, explained that if the traffic continued to increase as it had done, everything would be amply covered in a reasonable time after the opening of the company's lines now in rapid course of construction. The report was then unanimously adopted. The meeting was then made special, and the directors were authorised to raise additional capital of £1,600,000 for the metropolitan extensions, by the issue of 160,000 ten-pound shares, to rank pari yam with the deferred A shares ; also under the Act of 1864 to raise on debentures, £533,333 in re spect of the metropolitan extensions, They were then authorised to convert 82,500 A deferred shares of the metropolitan extension into A deferred stock. On the motion of Mr REES, seconded by Mr HAitTRIDGE, a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Bradford, Mr. W. Brown in the chair. The report having been read, The CHAIRMAN expressed his confidence from the receipts of the Great Northern Company during the past half year and the prospects of the company in the coming half year, that the shareholders of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Company would, under their agreement with the Great Northern, receive in the present year a dividend after the rate of from 7 to 8 per cent. The report was adopted, and a dividend after the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the half year end.. ing the 30th of June was declared. NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION. The final meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Thursday at the London Tavern ; Mr. U. Pease, M.P., in the chair. The repost stated that since the last meeting, in February, 1860, when a dividend of ls. per share was declared, other sums had been received,land the available balance was .£1,510, out of which the directors proposed to give Mr. C. L. Webb, the secretary, tha sum of 1:500, and leave the balance at the disposal of the shareholders. The report having been adopted, a resolution was proposed to give the balance to the directors for past services, they undertaking any further liabilities that might arise. Vote of thanks to the directors and secretary for their valuable services were passed, and the proceed ings terminated by dissolving the company. MORETONHAMPSTED AND SOUTH DEVON The half-yearly meeting of the company was held on Wednesday at Newto❑ Abbott; Mr. J. Divett presided- The report stated that the land purchases were being proceeded with us rapidly as possible, and that the contractors would shortly be in possession of the whole of the land required for the construc tion of the line. In consequence of the alterations made by the Tcign Valley Railway Company in their undertaking, the directors felt it their duty to co-operate with the South Devon Company in their opposition to the proposed extensions,which resulted in the rejectio❑ of the bill in the House of Lords. The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway had now been completed, and the directors entertained no doubt that the extension of the railway;system to the har bour of Dartmouth would have a material influence on the future traffic of the line. The report was adopted, and Mr Margery said the Line would be opened for traffic in the early part of next summer. calls which the directors would make. He thought the prospects of the company were satisfactory. The report was adopted. Mr J. B. AVanklyn and Mr Cash were re-elected directors, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. cess, are now, we believe, cordially approved by all classes and parties in the Confederacy. The only difference of opinion, still giving rise to disputes, is whether the State Government should or should not be placed on the same footing in regard to trade as the Confederate Government. There is much to be said on either side of this discussion. Against the proposed equality there occur to us two formi dable objections. One, in theory, is that it could give to the States with seaports of their own and large stores of cotton, like Georgia, the two Carolinas, and Alabama, an advantage over others not so circumstanced, and especially over those which are wholly or in . part overrun by the enemy, like Tennessee and Louisiana, and such an advantage is incompatible with that solidarity of interests which makes all the States a unit against the invader. The other object is a practical one, and it is that greedy adventurers and speculators upon the public necessity would have the chances in favour of a lax application of the law increased in proportion as they had to deal with 11 Governments instead of only one. Per haps the beat way to reconcile justice and expediency with the principles of the Confederate partnership of States, would consist in the Confederate Government becoming the factor and agent for the individual States in such importa tions and exportations as they might reasonably require on their separate accounts. This is what, we believe, is sub stantially the present practice. The prohibition of luxuries is a necessary corollary of the system. Sumptuary laws, such as virtually are the regula tions which we publish in our advertising columns, read oddly in this 19th century, and it will be said shock the libe ral spirit of the age, that a nation of professed Republicans vows to subjugate and exterminate, by fire and sword, another materially weaker nation of Republicans, in the name of liberty and self-government. These prohibitions, during the struggle, mean nothing more than that every bale of cotton which goes to pay for something the nation does not actually need is wasted, and that every ton of ship room filled with needless cargo excludes the same weight or size of articles which cannot be done without. The nation's needs are those of a workshop ; when with peace the amenities of civilised life shall return, it will be time enough again to buy fine linen, costly silks, and elegant furniture, and richly-flavoured wines. There is a moral justice, too, in this, and a few giddy and foolish persons shall not, by an untimely ostentation, mock and insult the stoic temper of a whole people. We must not conclude without briefly referring to a sub ject in connection with Southern finances which cannot be treated here as its importance deserves. A passage in the report of the Secretary of War, which we publish last week, gives us hope that the Confederate journal has it now under deliberation to apply to its internal economy the same prin ciple which has worked so well abroad. This principle is to substitute cotton, of which there is plenty, as a standard of values for gold, of which there is none, There is now in the Confederacy a stock of cotton of at least three million bales, of which probably not less than one-third is in a condition fit for immediate exportation. Of a large proportion of this the Government is the direct owner. If instead of this property the Government had the value, even at only 6d a pound, in gold, who can doubt that the Confederate currency would never have lost a specie basis ? Why should not a cotton basis, equally available for pre sent. purposes, be adopted ? Grant that the precious metals are abstractedly immeasurably superior to a perishable com modity as a standard of values. But if one cannot have what one wishes, why not make use of what one has ? Suppose the Government, in its future disbursements at home as well as abroad, should give promises to pay cotton instead of promises to pay gold ? It is under any conceiv able circumstances better able to keep the former than the latter, An order on the Government storekeeper for 100dol of cotton at peace prices would therefore at worst be mole intrinsically valuable than an order for gold on the Treasury to the same amount. If the expericient succeeded. the cotton promises might be gradually exchanged for the gold promises already issued. To give the cotton promises a saleable value abroad, it would only be necessary to exempt the holders from certain restrictions, whether present or prospective, on the exportation. Already the Government has undertaken to pay the interest on one description of its domestic funded debt in cotton; why not extend this expedient to the principle of its future unfunded debt ? The plan would be condemned by a certain class of shallow political economists, who, when they have learned the for mulus of the science by rote, fancy they know every pos sible application of its laws. But must it be necessarily condemned, because of being exceptional and anomalous, by the practical statesmen of a country in which everything is at present anomalous and exceptional ?—l7ee CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, The directors in their report cobgratulated the proprietors on the state of the works, and that the bridge would be ready for public traffic during the present autumn. The small balance of capital which was deficient at the last half year:y meeting had been provided, and the direc. tors were, consequently, enabled to avail themselves of the borrowing powers of the company. The di. rectors expressed ; their sense of the energy, skill, and promptitude of the contractors, Messrs. Coch rane and Co., and the tn wearied attention of the resident engineer, Mr Aley. The report of the en gineers, Messrs. Hawkshaw and Barlow, stated that since the last:report the main chains, with the suspension rods, longittdinal girders, and roadway girders, had been completed. The flooring of the roadway and the hand railing were in a forward state, the building of the tollhouses had been com menced, and there was every reason to expect that the bridge would be reedy for traffic in the month of October next. Railway Traffic Relurns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1864. 1863. 1864. 1883. £ 4 Belfast and N. Counties....., 136 136 2,746 2.353 Belfast and County Down 49 49 783 735 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,446 2,110 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,552 7,414 Caledonian 252 241 20,014 IMO Cambrian Cockermouth& Workington Bl 81 312 376 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 337 371 Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6l 65 263 261 Cork and Youghal 321 324 580 513 Cornwall 651 531 2,027 1.639 Deeside . 17 17 552 413 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63 2,044 1.47 , 1 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,284 1,897 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 481 3,751 2,915 Furness, &c 5O 59 3,416 2,840 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrf k.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 363 32,709 31,877 Great North of Scotland 53 58 1,797 2,328 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7lf 711 465 46 iit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind,) 3874 3511 8,356 9,874 Great Western 30564 10561 70,519 63,927 Hull and Hornsea l3 -- 227 - Inverness & Aberdeen June lO6l 861 1,988 2,025 Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 - 3,030 - Irish North-Western ll5 145 1,698 1,777 Kent Coast 27 10 3,850 135 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 3954 46,818 40,250 Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 261 283 114 100 Llanelly 463 463 739 780 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 53 53 2,141 2,198 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2504 23,876 22,965 London, Chatham, & Dover 725 721 8,391 6 536 Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 104 2,500 1,400 Man.,Sheflield,& Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham ut 91 1,487 1,307 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,642 1.36 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 611 49,574 46,105 Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 262 2591 4,732 4,619 Monkland 7ll 714 1,739 1.563 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,708 2,559 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Rhymney l9l Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern.... Taff Vale 57 Ulster ... .. 1051 Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 433 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 274 W.Hartlepool Harbr.& Rail._ 525 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitchaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 264 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. Indic 1855 Buffalo and Lake Huron...., 1615 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish .. lOB3 Eastern Bengal Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Central of Belgium lBO Great Indian Peninsula...- 553 Great Luxembourg . 134 Great Southern of India .... 79 Great Western of Canada... 345 Madras Madrid, Saragossa. &Aiicant.. 650 Northern of Canada ... ..... .. 91 Northern of France ...... .... 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn....... lBO5 Paris and Orleans . 1614 Pernambuco . 771 Royal Danish . 69 Scinde. . lO6 South Austrian Southern of France ...... 770 Victorian 196 Welland . West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 583 3 / 4 10791 25,535 23.553 65,281 60,049 3,317 3, 83 8,466 8.676 252 191 1131 138 301 751 306 618 9 15 7,034 6,534 6,695 6,320 988 4.9 4,707 4,226 28,397 29,631 5,527 5,395 2,314 2.158 289 289 3,021 2.334 1051 10 442 36( 1,53 i 1,35 J 891 856 4,421 4.155 693 598 1,059 762 VB/ b 22 35,053 32,015 319 277 2,638 1,011 244 185} 161 i 185 1( 110 1302 0321 1090 4,321 3,031 7,078 6,554 65,831 58,566 21,141 19,471 20,557 18,437 5,993 8,350 0,327 4,726 4,610 587 "573 10,032 8,667 5,96 ) 4 670 18,020 22,313 65,720 62,114 1,5.5 3,465 431 346 137, , 90 133,210 71,229 15,902 624 638 18} 1713 14n- 105 1484 680 196 1,098 1,955 51,494 50,059 31,698 30,6;7 8 , 393 7,035 422 ;59 1043 1,178 59,018 5.,933 Confederate Financial Prospects and Plans, In the brilliant administratian which we predict for the new Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, it is only jus tice to Mr Memminger to remember that the most danger ous crisis in the financial sitiation was actually passed when the reins of effice were transferred, and that the measures to which the Confederacy looks hopefully for relief were already in euccessful operation, These measures, forming in the aggregate a system of unprecedented cora preheasiveness, may be classed under two heads. Those by which, under the doable action of compulsory funding and rigid taxation, the redendant currency is reduced within manageable dimensions, had already, at the date of the late secretary's report, commenced to exert their salu tary effect, as is proved by the enormous excess of the appropriations under previoes estimates over the actual expenditure of the different departments of the Govern ment. The other class of measures, by which the foreign commerce of the country is made an arm of the national defence, have worked with even more rapid efficacy, as is proved by the vigorous importation of Confederate cotton into Liverpool and tht present quotations of the Confe derate foreign loan, which even the news of a naval defeat off Mobile cannot depress be:ow double the mer chantable value of corresponding Federal securities. The principle which underlies these measures is that the pre. cious stores of cotton which the world outside is eager to buy at even five times its price inside the blockade, are so much sap and life-blood in the body politic, not only not to be squandered, but to 3e readered most efficiently available for the public good. The Legislature reasoned that block ade-running was theoretically and practically a military operation, and should be subject to the same laws. No one dreams of supplying a camp or an army upon abstract theories of political economy, and the Confederate country is only a vast camp and the Confederate people a vast army. It was a long time before the statesmen of the South, all edu cated in a sect militant of uncompromising free trade, could bring themselves to acknowledge tb at there might be excep tions to their favourite rule, and that, while poison would always be poison, it might at times be a necessary, and even the only, remedy of a morbid frame. The interval of hesita tion did ranch snischief. It bled the confederacy for the ad vantage of adventurers who, while pocketing their spoils, claimed to bo public benefactors. It placed the credit of the Government into the hands of men without credit, and at the mercy of firms of straw. There is in the throes of every national crisis a brief period during which the con tractor erfeurnisseur is a patriotic hero, quickly followed by a reaction which denounces him with equal vehemence as a robber. A people which entered upon war of self-de fenceeavtearl delusion, 'an jewels with the d e t erm i nat i on th a t every man ' s life and Y Nvon v necessary, was n o t lik e l y to l a b our l ong un d er such a f one's devotion was e xpose d Where ee s v h e o ry should be the public prop er t y, if to so crucial a test, shme pretensions to patriotism and disinterestedness could not long endure. At the same time the genius of the Southern people is so little prone to centralisation that they were saved the er:or of falling into an opposite extreme, and despising the genuine aid which private enterprise, and skill, and experience could alone afford. A middle ground was therefore occupied and firmly held. The discovery had been made, and was acted upon, that if privaaa enterprise could probably run the blockade, a great Government with a Treasury Department to manage the financial transactions with a War Department to superintend transportation and storage, with a Navy Department to select vessels and crews, with an astonishingly solid credit abroad, could at least, do the same. But, while this discovery was acted upon, private capital and private enterprise were not dis couraged from the competition, provided only that a reason able guarantee was gi ?en that for every bale of cotton pri vately exported there should be returned an equivalent of practical utility. The result has been that the Confederate armies were never better supplied, that the agents of the Government buy at the lowest cash prices iu European markets what previously was paid at fabulous rates, that the small foreign loan has been largely diminished by re demption, and, it is no Secret to add, that a considerable balance is actually accursulating abroad to the credit of the Confederate 'Treasury. Never has the financial condition of a belligerent country Outside its own boundaries been so soundly prosperous—arid to those who know this condi- tion the rumours, periodically propagated by the enemy, of another Confederate foreign war loan appear simply ridiculous, The only time that such a loan was even thought of, when actually offered, was that to which Mr Mernminger refers in his last report, when he says that military reverses had rendered it impracticable, fur a reason ho does nor, state, viz., that the three million loan was then at a quotation at which the Confederate Government was unwilling to discount its credit. These principles of commercial legislation, under anoma lous circtamitauce, supported a they are by complete sue- Architectural Improvements in the City. It is hardly too much to say that the city of London, in many of its more central parts, and especially in the bank ing quarter, is now in prOcess of reconstruction ; for never within living memory were there more building operations in simultaneous progress than at present. It is not so niuch to railway works, the construction of bridges, and the like, that allusion is now made as to street architecture, and the stately and commodious manner in which the mercantile commtulity is being housed, and which in that respect was probably never before equalled in this metropolis. The cost of the superstructures which are being reared, great as that is in every case, bears no comparison to :that of the ground on which they stand, for the value of land in some parts of the city has risen to a degree perfectly fabulous, the sites of houses removed with a view to reconstruction having of late been bought at the rate actually of a million , and a half sterling the statute acre, and at a higher rate than that even in some intances. At present in Lombard street alone four banking-houses, all within sight from one point, are being rebuilt in a style of palatial grandeur, and others equal in stateliness have recently been erected. The most striking of the buildings now in course of erection there is that intended to be used as the bank of Messrs. Bevan. It is of four stories, and upwards of 60ft high, with a frontage nearly 100 ft in width, and extends backward from Lombard-street 115 ft. It is being erected by Messrs. Ashby and Horner, from designs by Mr Hardwick, R.A. The front is built almost entirely of Portland stone, and presents a very magnificent appearance, having a prin cipal entrance in the centre of stately proportions, and being adorned by massive columns and an elegant cornice. The building, which throughout is fire-proof, will probably cost £30,000 or £lO,OOO. Scarcely less striking is that now in course of construction in the same street, for the accommo dation, principally, of the Royal Insurance Company. It is, also, four stories high, with an extensive frontage cf stone, both in Lombard-street and Clement's-lane, and having a main entrance a great width and height, Near to it a build ing intended for a bank, and facing Lombard-street and Clement's-lane, has recently been begun. As yet the walls are but little above the foundations ; but enough is visible to indicate the elegance of the design, a prominent feature being the introduction into the elevation of pillars of polished granite. A substantial building erected in 1859 in Clement's lane, has been taken down to make way for it. The new bank of Messrs. Robaxtes, Lubbock, and Co., of which Mr Hard wick, R.A., is the architect, has just been finished. It is of four stories, with an entrance at each extremity ; the base ment being of stone, with massive ornamentations, and the upper part of white brick, slightly decorated. The London and County Bank, close by, is of recent erection,and though smaller than any to which reference has been made, is a re markably handsome building. It is entirely of stone, with 11 windows in front and a very elegant entablature. In a lane running from Lombard-street to Cornhill, and known • as George-yard, a new club is being built, from designs by Mr Fowler, the architect. Near the Monument, with a front age in Gracechurch-street and Eastcheap, the Scottish Com mercial Insurance Company have lately erected a building, which forms a conspicuous ornament to that part of the city. At the corner of Rood-lane, Fenchurch-street, a substantial edifice of four or five stories has been built for mercantile purposes, and finished within the last few months. Of late several very handsome banking and other premises have been erected in Minoing-lane,giving with Clothworkers noble building erected within the last few years-- and the Commercial Sale rooms, an air to the whole street almost as imposing as that of Pall-mall. The directors of the London and Westminster Bank are making extensive additions to their premises in Lothbury, rendered necessary by their increasing business. Again, a very elegant and costly building, erected by Messrs. Cubitt ar d Co., on the site of the old Cock Tavern in Threadneedle-street, for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, has just been finished, imparting additional grace to the surrounding architecture, which in that part of the city is conspicuous for magnificence. Some buildings of minor interest, but harmonising well with the massive character of the thoroughfare, are being put up in Broad -street; and the ancient church of Austinfriars hard by, is in course of re storation at considerable cost. On the site of the old East India House in Leadenhall-street a substantial range of merchants' offices, four stories high, has been built, eover ing the whole area. The directors of the Union Bank of London are enlarging their premises at the back of Prince's-street in the direction of Grocers' Hall, and close by, on the site of the premises of a banking firm of long standing recently taken down, a handsome struc ture, adjoining St Mildred's Church, at the east end of the Poultry, is about to rise. Guildhall is being roofed and restored at a coat of '►bout £70,000, and it is in con templation, provided the consent of the Common Coun cil can be obtained, to take down and reconstruct all the adjacent buildings now used as offices of the corporation and the law courts there. The scheme was at one time so bold as to suggest the sale of the Mansion-house, and the erec tion in its stead of a suitable residence for the Lord Mayor within the congenial precincts of Guildhall. [lnvEnnsiraliNT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— High and low, old and young, rich and poor, have availed themselves of Holloway's remedie.=, and have in gratitude testified to the success which has followed the employment of them. Few maladies can befall mankind which do not admit of alleviation, relief, or cure, by these healing, soothing, and purifying preparations. The action of Oint ment and T.'illa is wholesome in the highest degree, and never can be baimful in either external or internal ail ments. Holloway's remedies cure sores, ulcers, sprains, bruises, diphtheria, chest complaints, digestive disarrange ments, and bilious disorders. In influenza, bronchitis, hoarseness, coughs, shortness of breath, and palpitation of the heart, this Ointment should be well rubbed upon the throat and the chest every night and morning. COLNE VALLEY. The report of the directors states that the traffic earnings were much below what the district was capable of producing. The want of sufficient rolling stock, the difficulty experienced in organising an efficient traffic staff on so short a line, and the non completion of the Cambridge extension fully ac counted for this state of things,while the undertak ing was also hemmed in on every side by a competing company. The directors were desirous of reducing the working expenses as much as possible, and they had decided not to accept i❑ future the remunera tion granted them by the shareholders. BALA AND DOLGELLY. The half-yearly meeting was held on Thursday at Great Malvern ; Mr. W. Lewis in the chair. The report stated that about three-fourths of the land required for the line had been purchased, and was in the possession of the company, and arrange ments were also in progress for the construction of the railway without delay. The report was adopted, and votes of thanks brought the meeting to a close, WHILEHAVEN, CLEATOR, & EGREMONT, The report of the directors congratulated the shareholders upon an increase in the traffic returns arising chiefly from the carriage of ore and other minerals. The balance available for dividend was £10,400, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend of 13 per cent. per annum less income-tax, on the capital paid up ou the 31st of December last, and on the call of £2loa per share on the £lO shares B Fran the Ist of March, 1864, and that £1,084 of the remaining balance be curried to waggon account. The directors had agreed in conjunction with the Whitehaven and Farness Com pany to a reduction of 10 per cent, on the gross tolls for iron ore. The deviation lino between Moor-row and Cleator Moor was nearly finished ; the eaten• sion to Bridgefoot was progressing rapidly. With a view to eventualities, the country between Egre mont and Sellafield has been surveyed, and an ex teusion could easily be carried there. SPILSBY AND FIRSBY. Preliminary measures are being taken for the for. mation of a line from Spilsby to Fireby, on the East Lincolnshire division of the Great Northern. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN. The half yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, East India Avenue, Leadenhall-street; Mr Gilpin in the chair, The report stated that the works were inaugu rated in March last, since which time rapid progress had been made, and materiel to the value of £90,000 had been sent out, and u further large portion was ready for shipment. It was expected that the first two sections of the lino would be opened for traffic this year, or early in 1865, and the contractors, Messrs Veto and Butts, expressed their confident belief in their ability to complete the line to Chas comus in 1865. Thu CHAIRMAN - moved the adoption of the report, in which he said there wore two features especially satisfactory. One was the rapid progress being made with the line, and the other the official regis ter given by Mr Parish, the British Minister, who was totally uninterested in the undertaking, that the existing traffic between Buenos Ayres and the district which would be accommodated by the line amounted to £116,000 pc r annum, and this without counting passenger traffic. All that was now needed to insure the line a perfect success was that the blitirehOders should cheerfully subi:•eribu the SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The exploit of Admiral Farragut not only inflicted a grievous blow on the Confederate power in the South-west, but, more than any other occurrence, it roused the Federals to keep on the war, and for a time filled Europe with the belief that the Confederates, however resolute and brave, had found an enemy too strong for them. The Admiral now appears again as the hero of another, though less important expedition. The uncon querable spirit of the South has made his first con quest prove diem moment than the world at first expected. The opening of the Mississippi has not brought down a shipload of cotton from any Con federate planter, and the utmost efforts of the Federals have been unavailing to carry off more than a very small quantity from the spots where they have taken possession. But, though the cap ture of Mobile would not be likely to daunt the Confederates, it would, no doubt, be a serious mis. fortune to them. The place has been during the whole war open to blockade-runners, which have brought in valuable cargoes, in spite of the efforts of the Federal cruisers. Although not as important as Charleston or Wilmington, yet many cargoes have been introduced, particularly of articles of domestic use and luxury. To put a stop to this, and to gain possession of the chief port on the Gulf which remains to the Confederates, has been the lardent wish of the Federals ever since they took Now Orleans. Admiral Farragut has made his pre parations without regard to met, and has spent months in getting together a fleet of the nature and strength necessary for so difficult a task. At last he has pushed on with the same boldness that he displayed in the Mississippi, and success has as yet rewarded his efforts. What has been done comes to us as yet only from Confederate sources, but from the tone of the Southern press which records the action, it is plain that Admiral Farragut has gained a great advantage. In the first place, the Confede. rate flotilla has been destroyed, which is, perhaps, not to be wondered at, since it was exposed to a very superior force. Then two of the forts which form the outer defence of the place have yielded to the Federals. Fort Powell, on Dauphin Island, a long spit of land at the mouth of the har bour, was evacuated and destroyed on the night of the sth by the Confederates. From its exposed position this was to be expected. After the destruction of the Confederate vessels its capture was probably certain, and the defenders may be looked upon as acting prudently in failing back on their other defences. But the loss of Fort Gaines appears to be deeply felt in the South. This place was surrendered to the Federals under cir cumstances that have given rise to a cry of treachery. It would, of course, be wrong to conclude without further evidence that this charge is well-founded. It is one that is often made when a military disas ter takes place, particularly when the causes of it are not obvious to the public. It may be that the place was untenable after the loss of the vessels, and, though well provisioned and garrisoned, the surrender may have been really unavoidable. But to lose a strong position and 600 men is enough to try the temper of any community, and just now the outcry is loud against Colonel Ander son. The South seems to have no wish to dissemble the importance of his loss. We have a report that General Beauregard, who chiefly organised the de. fence of Charleston, is to be intrusted with the com mand at Mobile. His skill may, perhaps, prevent the enemy from gaining any farther successes. From the description given of the works added by the Confederates since the war began, it seems likely that the real struggle is still to some. The question of forts against ships has been decided by Charleston in favour of the former, and the same re sult may be found at Mobile. A correspondent the other day gave in these columns a few observations on the defence of the place, and before learning the fall of the two forts mentioned the opinion of Admiral Buchanan that at least one of them could not be held. Fen Gaines, the scene of Col. Anderson's alleged treason, and Fort Morgan, which still at the last advises held out, were, in the Southern Admiral's opinion, totally incompetent to defend the entrance of the bay, and the Federal fleet might pass them whenever it chose to make the attempt, Two strong works inside the bay itself and a strong fort on the shore south of the city are described as the real de fences of Mobile, and these, aided by the shallow ness of the water on the bar, are looked to by the Confederates as capable of preventing any near ap proach of the hostile vessels. In America, however, the military events yield in importance to the poli tical. Wnile each succeeding month displays the unbending firmness of the Southerners, there are many signs of a relaxation of purpose among their opponents. The nomination of General 111.Clellan as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency is now not unlikely, if the will of New York should prevail with the representatives of the party. The principles of General Mielellan are not very clear ; he has always been looked upon as a war Democrat, as being as anxious for union and the old Consti tution as any man in the land. But when events move so rapidly men move with them. Should any opponent of Mr Lincoln be elected, there can hardly be a doubt that the policy of the present President will be abandoned during the ensuing four years. On the other hand, it may be doubted if the Republicans are more inclined for the recogni tion of the South, or even for reconciliation with it, than they were a year ago. They have an immense political power—they give away thousands of places and commissions—they disburse millions upon millions of money—they command the army and the navy, and they have on their side all who have flourished and are flourishing by the war. They know thoroughly what they want, which is more than a large part of the Democrats do, and they will strain every nerve to succeed. During the next two months we shall behold a struggle as fierce ae that between the opposing armies themselves, There will be but one wish among European nations—that a President may be elected unpledged to a war policy, and capable of acting with firmness and independence during the coming Presidential term. POST.—With great regret we observe that one ol ,he oldest and most respected of our paper manu. facturers has found himself unable to beTar up longer against the unfair competition with the foreign producer to which the trade has been subjected by the blundering manner in which the doctrines of free trade have been administered . by our Govern ment departments, and has stopped payment, We wish we could say that we have received this intel ligence with surprise, or that we believe it to be an exceptional case, the Jesuit of individual misfortune or mismanagement. We can indulge in no such hope. We fear that this failure of an old•esta blished firm is an indication of the state of the trade at large, that it is only the precursor of many more like unfortunate events, and that the issue will be the utter loss of the manufacture to this country, and its transfer to the Frenchman and the Belgian. What will the Government do ? Will they look the difficulty in the face which the Board of Trade and their irresponsible associate, Mr Cobden, have created, and enforce a remedy by the applica tion of real pressure upon foreign nations: or will Mr Gladstone continue, with absurd audacity, to deny the disabilities imposed upon our own producer, and Mr Milner Gibson persist in blandly quoting cooked statistics and elaborately erroneous calcula tions in the hope of inducing the public to believe that the paper manufacturers are mere grumblers who take a morbid pleasure iu playing at being dis tressed people with a grievance ? Will they content themselves with meeting the shock of the logic of facts by the reiteration of Sir R. Peel's dogma—" Other nations will follow our example," and the parade of commercial theories which they misunderstood and misapplied—or will they frankly own their blunder and have the firmness and courage to use the only mode left to them of repairing it by im posing upon foreign paper a duty the cessation of which shall be conditional on the accord to this country of free trade in the raw material ? Such a course, no doubt, would be an infraction of the ab' stract theories of free trade, but nothing like so great or mischievous a one as that under which the industry of England and Ireland is now euffering. It would be a wise and politic departure, adopted from necessity, and as a remedy from an otherwise incur able disorder. Mr Cobden would say no doubt with regard to paper as he formerly said of corn—What matters it whether we make paper at home or no. Let us consider only the interests of the consumer, and if the foreigner can supply us at low prices, what matters the elimination of the paper manu facturers within our own boundaries—we will have no regard to them. That is the theory of Mr Cob den, and he would get out of the difficulty which his want of knowledge and of caution have created, and which is perpetuated by the obstinacy of his quondam colleague, by its reckless and unbending application. We cannot endorse that method of administering the principles of free trade. The principles are true, but the application is false. It is assumed, or represented by a particular class of political economists, that the consumers and the , roducers in a country constitute two distinct classes, each having interests antagonistic to those of the other. This doctrine has been propound" with unreasoning iteration till the consumer is regarded as an individuality, arid the phrase "the interest s of " the consum er " a Shibb o l et h di s tinction of the disciples of f ree tra d e . Th ere is no greeter fallacy.. It is not consistent with the principles of true free trad e t o attemp t t h e esta blishment of any distinctive cl ass treatmen t i n l eg i s lation. 'That w a s one of the errors of the protective system of 20 years ago. It was the vice that upset it, that set it aside, and instituted the free trade system in its place. Every element in our social system produces as well as consumes, and it i s not possible unjustly to injure any produc er without the injury done to him react ing upon the consumer. Still less is it possible to eliminate from the industries of the country such a manufacture as that of paper, without inflicting serious permanent loss upon the kingdom at large. It would displace the labour, and either reduce a large amount of capital to inaction, or transfer it to other countries who will have obtained the command of cur markets as well as their own by the errors and irresolution of our Governments. It should be borne in mind that the paper trade is not a feeble industry conducting its business with insufficient means or defective energy. Those engaged in it are able and willing to meet the foreign producer as free traders in an open market; they neither ask for bounties nor clamour for protection. They main tain that, unless fairly weighted in the race, they can b.:at their rivals both in quality and price, but they complain, with absolute justice, that the Gov ernment of this country, when negotiating commer cial treaties of professed reciprocity with fore i g n nations, neglected to secure for our own in dustrial population advantages corresponding to tho se whic h we lavishly gave, and they call upon the Govern ment now to retrace their steps so far as is necessarci to put them in the position of again having in b an h the opportunity which they allowed to slip t hroug " their fingers. Can Mr Gladstone or Mr Gibson deny that their demand has for its f on oda • lion both policy and justice? Milner COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. There was only a moderate attendance of buyers to- ce° t but wheat has shown great firmness and we uote Pr i the turn in favour of sellers. Barrel ' flour met a tolrrablyt bly fair demand and prices unchanged, but sacks are dital, to quit. Oats the turn dearer, and oatmeal steady. and barley at former prices. Indian corn commanded good inquiry, at fully previous rates. Egyptian beaus au valued is per qr. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. nd The supply of wheat at to-day's market was Wall',o. and sales took place at rather over the last week's Pr ie no . —White wheat, 43s to 46s ; red, 39s to 42s per 3 6 t t ir . Barley, malting, —s to —s ; grinding, 30s to 34e per ` , 0 ",. Oats, 208 to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to •* -43 P qr. ; new, 36s to 40s. WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. 'e Of The demand for wheat was fair to-day, and the Pr l e t i. last week fully maintained for old sorts. New not Plan ful, and rather dearer. Other articles fetch full rates. Averages for the week : Wheat 2,017 qrs., at 43s 7d Oats 229 8ar1ey......... 15 Peas ••• • Beans LINCOLN—FRIDAY. There was a limited show of wheat at market to•tißici The demand for both old and new oats was impro ved, so extreme rates were made. Very little change in ball' Other articles rather dearer. White wheat new, 44s to 49s , Barley, grinding. • r a 405 to 44s I Oats, old, 26s t° g Red do. Old white 43s to 46s New .do .......... 20s t X i Red do . 388 to 42s 1 8ean5............ nst.° 413 Barley, malting..., —s to,—s 1 Beans, new ..... .3 6 $ i ° .. ...... 24$ do _2,-64 CORK—THURSDAY. Red The following were the quotations this morning 7 wheat, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; white, 8s 3d to 9s Od b ar ta to ld to Os Od ; oats, 56 10d to 6s 3d ; black do., a 6s Od; bere, 6s 10d. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The firmness and improved activity o b s ervable .in °euar" raw sugar market at the end of last weeek have di sa p pe me ar last dt dwwaaeynhotarnvftewnononn,cfisedineensne. which moreupon a In entered condition ot fla and Refiners' h t ins hv produce 8 c o f this day rum a quiet business doing at ab o ut the pri ces week. macleYdrllt.il COAL MARKET. .rket. Prices of Coal per Ton at the olose of the na-- o. e. a. d. llolywell 15 0 Cowpen Hartley 13 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ..18 3 Walker Primrose 13 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Walls End. H a rtlepool ......... 18 9 17 K e lloe.. ............ . South Kelloe ......... 1 8 0 8 0 H eu gh Hall .......... 19 Hatton .... .... 0 Braddyll'a iietton. .. ..... 17 9 Belln .......... 17 o Belmont ..............1 v Walls End. Tunstall Haswell .. .19 0 Ships at market lt, 44; sold. 39. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Auetralla and Mauritius, via Southampton ....... Sept. l ~ vrt Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. ....... Se pt. Sept. :I:, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Aug. 2 " China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. 1 via Marseilles ...Aug. 2 7 . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Aug. 25. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 1 via Marseilles Aug, 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Sept. 4 . Portug,a1.... Malta, _Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 4,,,,. via Marseilles Aug. 27. Newfoundland . . A ,, g . 31. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... • Aug' 25. by U.S. packet... • 2 6. by Canadian packet. Aug• MI parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Aug. 29. California. and British Columbia.. THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN MINES " The more intelligent and thoughtful of the miners themselves have repeatedly protested against it, but their protests are of no avail. The employers s tate the tithe the remedy lies in the hands of the men, who have but to kp their wives and daughters at home, and the evil will be checked at once. Very true, but does the misconduct, follY. or what we will, of the men justify the employers in ho e ° permitting or tolerating the misuse of female labour? 111 truth is, female labour is plentiful and cheaper, far c heaper. than that of the m en, and unscrupu lous employers will be found very slow in encouraging a change which may tend to diminish their profits. The re are very many collieries, however, where no female labourers are allowed, and I have not heard that the propriet ors of these h a ve b thereby, If they did have to pay more for manual labour, they had that labour far better and more effectively per formed than if it had been done by females, while they were ex e mpt from the frightful amount of demoralization entailed by the toleration of a pernicious and utterly unjus tifiable system.—Once a Week. The French Legation at Teheran sent last spriog to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a despatch ea the subject of the breeding of silk worms, the following analysis of which has just been published in the bulletin of the Societe d'Acclimatation :—" Si lk worms are pr inc Ca' i. pally bred in five provinces in Persia—Meshed, Yezd, chan, the Mazenderan, and the Ghilan. The first two pro . duce silk of good quality, but that of the Ghilan is superior No malady has prevailed in any of these provinces although no great care is taken of the worms. The establishment is composed of a plank hut of four or five floors, open to ell winds, and the worm, when once hatched, is left to itself. Little or no attention is paid to the variations of tempe r ture, the only care of the breeder be in g not to allow tn: worms to want for food. One Swiss house (Acchart a nd Co.), and three Greek houses, do a very profitable busin° in the province of Ghilan. As to the trade in silk wornie eggs, it is unknown in Persia, and the Consul, w ho has sent the account, expresses surprise at having seen our i nouncements in the journals that persons have P a ,.7,, th ro ugh Constantinople on their way to Persia to pueL„ them. It appears from this account that ma n y tray ellerP on arriving at Tiflis receive unfavourable information I ' 6 tp , the silk worm productions - of Persia, and retrace their ate"' or else direct their course towards Boukhars. wh presented to them as an Eldorado, an d where tbel," n i n . their lives and liberties from the pillaging tri bes; The 70. sul attributes the disfavour which attends the silk give to with plea a v h eoani ea indication theai n f dp o ir r co m adt i iu d oc a nt b i 00 l etn productions competition.hoefi each o fh e H n e v eh Persiana has f o rwa r p tions of Persia to the malevolence of neighbours ee':,:in. d ro e ' tn :—: - A ce • . . as pori , e. to r quality and price If France." Di w ci i i te m o s f ois w - .— m. Oai c t k h i e n 25th qt.,Tohforan.adoonu.-Lieath, the Dickinson, as :r f MANNING,--On the 25th inst ,at Cheltenham, the w..e o W. W. Manning, Esq., of a . daughter. PATTEN.—On the 25th bast ,at 24, Hill-street, Berkel e y square, the wife of Captain. Wilson Patten, of the Ist life Guards, of a daughter. j r a rriages. MIXTABLE—NIXO N.—On the 25th inst., at Holy Trinity. Church, Clowtee le y -square, John Elliott Ilustable, Barnsbury, to Isabella, daughter el 33, Arundol -e q uate ' Wlcn John Nixon, of Keswick, Cumberland. YAN.—On the 25th inst., at the Romen, C . 3 „, - tholic Church of St. Anselm and St. Cecilia, Will y— of Long-acre. Thomas. only eon of Mr. Martin Wallace, St, George s; place. Hyde-Park, to Rosetta Ann, eldest daughter C. :kir. James Ryan; Deaths. ALLAN..—On the 25th inst., at his Cottage, at Addh'uSt"tilile; Thomas Allan, Esq., formerly of Lloyd's and the Exchange, aged 87. BATT.—On the 25th inst. George Batt, Esq., The rriorYf Sydenharo, and late of 412, ' Strand, seed merc hant. BRucE.—On the 25th inst., at Leckie, Stirlinn•shire, c°1:1- Brace, sequence of a fall from his horse, Charles D. P. Esq,, late of 10, Great Cumberland-street, aged 61. John GILBERT. —On the 25th inst., at South sea, - Gilbert, Esq., of Francesca, Dublin, aged 53. Captain LINDSAY.—On the 23d inst., at West Bromptonf John Lindsay, R.N., aged 73. MARSR.—On the 24th inst., at Beddington nectorY, Su r ' rey. the Ri.s. Wm. Marsh, D.D f rec tor of Beddingtout aged 90. _ - London: Prin;:*.!d and Prt.itshed b WILLI-40i AN Di e' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE Sus' OCa ce Of Strand, in the freetnet. of the laYoy , in the Ctilnil Aliddicsex.--Saturday, August 27,4841, ha C a pup 111: , 01 8~ tel